Director of Reality Research
Job in
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listed on 2026-09-30
Listing for:
Movendi Inc.
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-30
Job specializations:
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Research/Development
Research Scientist, AI Business & Operations, Clinical Research, Research Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
The Director of Reality Research should not be a people manager who happens to supervise researchers. They should be an active scientist with enough credibility to attract other scientists.
- Define and evolve Movendi's multi-year research roadmap.
- Translate strategic goals into research programs.
- Maintain scientific rigor across all research activities.
- Drive breakthrough thinking beyond incremental model improvements.
Research management
- Lead Reality Scientists and Research Engineers.
- Prioritize research initiatives.
- Review experiments and ensure reproducibility.
- Establish research methodologies and standards.
Academic collaboration
- Build long-term partnerships with leading universities.
- Launch joint research projects.
- Supervise internships, PhD collaborations, and visiting researchers.
- Represent Movendi in academic consortia and public research programs.
Publications and infrastructure
- Oversee Movendi Research Notes, and decide what stays proprietary.
- Coordinate conference submissions where strategically appropriate.
- Establish experiment review processes and define benchmark suites.
- Promote reproducible research and systematic knowledge sharing.
Ideal profile
- PhD in AI, Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision, Computational Neuroscience, or a closely related field.
- 10+ years conducting frontier research.
- Strong publication record at leading conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, or RSS.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary research teams.
- Demonstrated success collaborating with universities and research organizations.
- Comfortable in a fast-moving startup while maintaining scientific rigor.
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